Ask HN: review my webapp starter project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846151
by kaffeinecoma • 15 years ago
24 17 15 years ago

Hi HN, I'm looking for feedback on a project I've been working on. It's a kind of webapp starter project- the code is the product.

http://armhold.com/quick

The target customer is an entrepreneur/dev that wants to get a basic webapp up and running quickly. It doesn't do anything novel or earth-shattering; it's just a project shell that gives you some common basic features that you can use to build out your site.

I often see jobs posted to sites like oDesk or Elance asking for a basic website with these kinds of features. The idea is to sell this code as a starter project, so you can get your webapp running faster and not have to worry about implementing boilerplate stuff like:

* totally automated user accounts (sign-up/login/change-password/forgot-password, etc)

* login via Facebook or use local account (uses BCrypt for storing pw hashes)

* drop-dead easy "you must be logged in to access this page" annotations

* "contact us" with CAPTCHA protection

* smart https/http switching for secure/insecure pages

* uses H2 as an integrated database, so it also saves you the hassle of setting up MySQL (though it's a simple change if you do in fact want to use an existing DB).

Again, none of this is rocket-science, but it can take a surprising amount of time to get these basic things working properly.

The main downside to this of course if that you're subject to my choice of tech (Java, Wicket, JPA/Hibernate).

Do you think this is worth pursuing? Do you think it's worth $199? Would you like to use it to build your next project? :-)

All constructive feedback appreciated, thank you.

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